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(No Model.) 2 sheetssheet 1. R. MITCHELL.

WARDRBE BEDSTBAD.

Patented s611115, 1885.

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WARDROBE 'BEDSTEAIL No. 326,316. Patented'Sept. 15, 1885:

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 326,316, dated September 15, 1885. Application filed June 9, 1884. (No model.) y l Be it known that I, ROBERT MITCHELL, of Atlanta, in the county of Fulton and State of Georgia, have invented a new and improved; Wardrobe-Bedstead, of which the following is j a full, clear, and eXact description.

The object of my invention is to provide a wardrobe-bedstead in which the bedstead,I with its mosquito-canopy, may easily and quickly be folded within the wardrobe. The invention consists in a wardrobe-bed; stead constructed with the head-board of the.

lbed hinged to the wardrobe and made in two v sections hinged to each other, together with .amosquitoicanopy adapted' to fold down on the bed and into the wardrobe, all as hereinafter fully described and claimed. Y Reference is to be had to the 'accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures. Figure l is a vertical sectional elevation of t lmy improved bedstead as unfolded for use j Fig. 2 is a cross-sectional elevation on the line ww, Fig. l. Fig. 8 is a sectional plan view lwith. the top of the wardrobe removed and the bedding and springs partly broken away; and Fig. 4 is a detail,in side view,of the lockyjoint of the side bars which support the mosquito-canopy.

-The letter A indicates the wardrobe, in y which' the bedstead B is pivoted at each side,

near the bottom,by the strong pins b b, fixed to the head of the bedstead andentering holes or bearings a a, made in the opposite side walls of the wardrobe, or in brackets a a fixed thereto. a2 is a stop-block fiXedin the wardrobe, and against which the foot-board b of the bed is adapted to strike when the bed is swung upon its pivots b b within the wardrobe, as in dotted lines in Fig. 1, in which position the bed may be held by a button, b2, on its foot-board being turned into an opening, If?,

made for it in the head of the wardrobe.

I provide the wardrobe with one 0r more rows of clothes-hooks, a3, and a couple of drawers, a, in which the bedclothes may be packed away. When the bed is let down, as in full lines in Fig. l, it is supported at the foot by the leg-frame C, which is pivoted to the side rails of the bed at c, and may be folded up under the bed before or after the bed is swung up wit-hin the wardrobe.

I propose to make the doors, which are hinged to and close the .front of the wardrobe, in two pairs, D, consisting of an inner door, d, and an outer door, d', at each side of the wardrobe. The'door d of each pair of doors is hung directly to the side of the wardrobe on a pair of hinges, E E, thejointed leaves or mitered edges e e', respectively, of the wardrobe and the door d,'so that the pairs D of doors may be swung shut at the front of the wardrobe, and so that the door d may be folded back open and dat against the side of the wardrobe. (See Fig. 3.) The doors d d of each pair are or may be rabbet-jointed together,and are hinged to each other by the hinge; F,fixed at the inner faces of the doors and allowing the inner face of the door d to fold back fiat upon the outer face of the door d, when the latter is folded back against the side of the wardrobe, and exposing the outer finished side or face only of the door d to view, thus preserving a finished appearance 0f the wardrobe at each side when each pair of doors d d is folded back open, and kthe close fold of the pairs of doors against the wardrobe allows the back of the wardrobe to remain always close to the side wall of aroom when the bedstead is in use, .thus saving room in the apartment. Plate-buttons f are pivoted on one ofthe doors d or d@ s0 as to be swung across the `joint of the doors with each other and hold them in line across the face as a single door when the wardrobe incloses the folded bedstead; and when the doors are closed the meeting edges d2 d2 of the doors d d may Vbe held to each other by any suitable lock, latch, or bolt device.

ln order to secure a high head-board, B, to the bed and permit the bed to be folded into the Wardrobe, I make the head-board B in two parts, a lower part, B', to which the side rails, G, of the bedstead are made fast, and an upper part, B2, hinged to the part B by strong hinges H, which permit the part B2 to fold down forward upon the bedding. A hook, g, pivoted on the part B', engages the headed screw or stud h on the part B2 to hold the latter raised; but any suitable slide-bolt or other plates of which are 'screwed to the beveled or l TOO ; B then standing vertically at the back of the wardrobe, as in dotted lines, Fig. 1.

I is a stati` or pole which is held in keepers J, fixed to the back of the upper part, B2, of

the head-board. The staff may it tightly in Y the keepers J to be held solely thereby; but I have shown it fitted loosely in the keepers and resting at its lower end on a block or bracket, j, fixedY to the part B2 of the headboard. A bar, K, is hinged atk to the top of the staff I, and on this bar K the top or head frame,L,of the mosquito canopy or netting is fastened rigidly in the plane of the bar K, and

so as to be set in a horizontal position when the bed is let down for use, and the said frame is supported from the staff I by the brace rods N 0, as in Fig. 1.

A brace-rod, N, is pivoted atnto each edge of the bar'K, and a brace-rod, O, is pivoted at o to each edge of the stall I. rIhe meeting ends of the respective side braces, N O, are

pivoted to each other at p, the ends of the braces O being turned up somewhat to locate ythe pivot p at such a point as shallv permit a,

tongue, P, stamped out from the metal of the brace N, or a tongue attached to the said brace, to lock over the upper edge of the brace O, and thereby bind the two parts or rods N O of each side brace to each other both lengthwise and atwise.

The pivots n o p are so arranged with re- Y lation to each other that when the bar K is raised to horizonal position'by swinging it` upward on its hinge k, the tongue P will lock l over the brace O when the j oint-pivot p stands below a straight line drawn through or between the end pivots, n o, of the brace-rods,`

the pivots n o and unlock the tongues P from the brace-rods O,whereupon the frameL may be folded down with the brace-rods N O, `overlapping each other at each side of the sta I and bar K. But one jointed brace, N-

O, may be used, but I prefer to use the two braces, as above described.

In the frame L, I pivot on pins ran inner frame, R, across which is stretched the roofsection M of the netting Vof the mosquitocanopy. The pivots r are set to one side of the longitudinal center .of `the frames L R, so that the frame R will be self-closing, and a cord, S, connecting with the side of the frame R nearest the pivots and hanging down Within reach of the occupants of the bed, may be pulled to swing open the roof-section M of netting when it is desired to secure better ventilation; and on letting go of the cord the frame R will fall again, to close by its overhanging rim or ledge 1J, ilat upon the top of the iixed frame L and eut ot the entrance of insects at the top of the canopy. i

I propose to provide the bed with a suitable spring-bottom, T, on which the mattress U is to be laid; vand to prevent a falling over of the mattress as the bed is folded up into the wardrobe A, I tie the mattress at each side and about at the center to the staples or eyes u, fixed in the side rails, G, by the cords V, as shown in Figs. 1 and 3, which also allowsthe mattress to be turned over end for end to equalize the wear on it. I fasten the spring-bottom T to the bedstead by staples or pins t or other suitable fastenings.

The staff I and its head-frames`,with .the

mosquito-canopy, may easily be removed from the bed when desired by lifting the staff `out from its keepers J.

In folding the bed into the wardrobe with the canopy attached, the head-frames LV R will first be swung down to the stai I, whereupon the bed will be swung upon its pivots b, and as the bed rises the stati I will strike the back of the wardrobe and fold the part B f of the head-board flat upon the bed, as in dotted'lines,Fig. 1. The leg-fram'cCnow being folded flat the doors D may be closed to conceal the whole'bed and present the appearance oi a wardrobe,occupying but little room l in the apartment in which it is placed. In folding the bed without the canopy attached the part BIl of the head-board will strike the back of the wardrobe and fold flat upon the .A j Roer. MITCHELL.

Witnesses: i

PEYTON H. SNooK, H. C. HAMMOND. 

